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AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORM

Name: Viveca Hannelore Alary
Nicknames: Grudgingly responds to 'Viv'
Gender: Female
Age: 153 (Human age ~15)

Faction/Race Demons/Ceffyl dwfr

Personality: It might be all the caffeine she drinks or just her natural personality, but she is a little bit hyper. From an early age Viveca has been taught what is and isn't proper for a young demoness and so she tries to hide her prankster side, not terribly enthused about it, but conforming to the social group standards, since it means being accepted in the social circle she's come to enjoy quite a bit. Since she views conforming as a necessary evil, she has a bit of a difficulty dealing and connecting with her own kind on a personal level, as she just wants to go out and prank people, but feels she needs to be properly formal around anyone like her and can't be herself.

Viveca is nothing short of adamant. She would swear up and down, with a straight face, to a person, that she hadn't touched them, after they had seen her walk up and punch them in the arm. Her natural charm generally works in her favor, so that she can usually get away with her pranks through persuasion and the conviction of her innocence.

Her mind works rather well at double tasking, or rather, she finds ways where she can pull a prank in any given situation she's in. Viveca is also a bit of a mooch. Before coming to the school, she would get bribed to go away and leave a person alone, and so now she has a habit of asking to be lent things: money, pencils, paper, food, buttons, anything that she can really think of.

Viveca is most passionate about physical engineering, aimed specifically at the ability to build Rube Goldberg machines. Most of her contraptions have involved the small objects she gets from other people, set up to open her dorm door, turn a light on, or scratch her back. She can jimmy up quick ones for the occasional prank, but she'd rather put all the effort into something that's going to be beneficial for herself. Viveca will spend hours in the library researching calculations and physics to improve her contraptions.

She spent most of her childhood and adolescence as not only an only child, but the daughter of separated parents. They worked to curry favor with her by competing and try to out-do the other person. Viveca was no fool either. At the tender age of 5, she had already figured out how to set one against the other to see who could better 'win' her affections. Growing up this way, she became rather spoiled. Everything she does, she does it for herself and her own amusement, she doesn't understand the value of helping anyone else just to "feel good" or to "make the world a better place."

Why did they enroll at the academy? First and foremost Viveca is at Amityville because of Family Tradition (and since tradition is absolutely everything...). Although she pretended to fight it tooth and nail, as she could never let her parents think she was doing what they wanted her to do, she was intrigued by what they could teach her at the academy, namely how to use her FEAR.

Viveca also felt the need to branch out and meet new people (and by other people, she means other demons. She has no desire to meet monsters or undead, really. Maybe to torment, but...) that were beyond her family's personal circle. She enjoyed their company, but a lot of the family friends were pretty stodgy, she'd, of course, been hoping to meet up with people with common interests.

Finally, Viveca wants to experience the caffeine's of the world! She is inexplicably drawn to any and everything that has caffeine in it (tea, coffee, pop, you name it). Perpetually with a drink in hand, she's gotten tired of her family brews and wants to see what else is out in the world. She hopes to broaden her beverage horizons and feed her need for caffeine with as many fixes as she can.

FEAR: Dissipate - One moment she's right in front of you, the next she's gone! Viveca has the ability to vanish into thin air (success based on dice roll), and reappear a few feet away. It's very useful when she's being attacked head on, and also if she wants to sneak up on an unsuspecting opponent.

Natural Ability: Equine Shapeshift - When she wants to, she can shift from her human form to a mare. She always appears with sandy brown fur, a sheered off tail and braided mane. In this form she has the ability to fly, as well as having a luminescent glow to her.

Physical Description:
Eye Color: Red
Hair Color/Style: Viveca's hair is sandy brown, medium length, and is either worn down or in a braid, it has a natural wave when she leaves it down. [X]
Skin Color: Porcelain white, her horns are the same color as her eyes and her wings are metallic colored.
Clothing Style/Colors: Victorian in style, she likes them in blacks and blues. She also likes antique keys, so tends to adorn her outfits with them.
(Breakdown)
---Hat: Bowler with an antique key embellishment [X]
---Necklace: Black lacy choker with a keyhole. From the keyhole is a long chain, with a key connected to it (however the key is out of view, tucked into her corset)
---Corset: Blue corset, with an image of a ribcage on it and laced up the side. [X]
---Skirt: Black over skirt, blue underskirt. [X] (First skirt)
---Shoes: Platform shoes, because of her height.
Extra: Viveca's horn's curl under, and being made of cartilage, they're very flexible, so can be shoved easily under a hat. She has a sleeve tattoo, on her upper left arm, comprised of gears fitted together, to display her love of engineering.
References: http://theculter.com/tih/viveca.gif
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Looking at your quest, I just realized... is the 'Nightmare' you're referring to the same sort of 'Mare' as Leo? I was just realizing that if they're the same creature, there may be some conflict of set-up-race.

In terms of species categorization goes, the shop relies on where the players place their race's specie rather than where the GM puts them. Since Leo is an enrolled student, Nightmares by this shop standards are considered to be a Monster rather than Demon. They do not have a horse form, but are rather based off of this page, which places them as horse-thieves that sit on people's chests to paralyze them.

Perhaps consider changing her from a "Nightmare" to a Succubus if you'd like to keep her as a demon?

Otherwise, how will her mechanical wings work? Are they just a fashion accessory, or actual moving wings that she can manipulate (since you have RPed her "flex[ing] her mechanical wings up and down")?

I guess I have no reasons for them (at least none that I can think of that work with everything), so they've been down graded to a tattoo.

Thanks for the input, Maru! (Flexing her wings can now mean flexing her shoulders. XD )

(And thanks to Sel for letting me bombard her with stuff. :B )

You have a very intriguing character here! And I have some questions for you~

Firstly, why does she like to prank people? Is it because she feels she gets something out of it, is she addicted to it like she is to caffeine, or is there a serious reason like it makes her feel more secure/superior/etc.? Also, when did she first prank someone and realize it was something she enjoyed? Now, you said she doesn't have any interest associated outside of her class, but you also said she does get along with her fellow demons too well either. So, is it just that she isn't terribly social or are there other reasons? Is it like a scale thing, like she isn't fond of demons, but at least she likes them better than anyone else? Why does she like engineering? What does she feel she gets out of that that's better than, say, a personal relationship or other sort of hobby?

Also, I noticed there's been a lot of talk of her race and such. I'm just wondering if there's a particular reason you need her to have the equine shapeshift? What does it add/take away to her character? How does she use this form and what is her attitude towards it, etc.?

I hope that helps a bit! I'm definitely curious to see where you end up with her.

Alright, so it seems like almost every other crit present is towards Viveca as a character, so I'm going to ignore that for the moment and go about critting her as an Alp! O u O

So, lemme just get started here.

First and foremost, I know her concept art is really good right there. Honestly, it's beautiful, but if she doesn't have the wings anymore then it should probably be taken down. Just the same, I don't see how her appearance is anything like an Alp, not how it was before, not how it is now. Alps are basically little goblins and are largely a male dominated species (that said, I'm not harping on you making a female Alp, that's totally fine, but she just seems too girly given that detail).

Secondly, it is actually not stated in any of the Alp sources I've read that they can turn into a horse. The only forms it has ever been known to take outside of its natural one are pigs, dogs, cats, snakes or "small white butterflies" and I think you could concentrate heavily on the butterfly and actually be golden since you wanted her to have wings so bad, but again, her appearance as a whole doesn't say 'Alp' to me at all. It says 'Steampunk' character which just seems really random in this setting as well as for the given creature. Especially with her horse form's ability to fly, it seems like you're really intent on something that the Alp just doesn't have. They're not similar creatures, Nightmares and Alps, except that they sit on peoples chests and night and give them bad dreams--nothing else is shared between them as a species.

Now, I know that probably came off a bit harsh, but Viveca herself doesn't seem to be a bad character at all! It seems like you've got her figured out in terms of what you want to do with her and that's perfectly fine! I would heavily recommend searching for more horse monsters or even making up a creature yourself (you are allowed to do that, it's quite awesome) to better match your vision.

Think of it this way: The person who wound up getting the Mare has set the standard for all other Mare students. If you get Viveca, that would then set the standard for all other Alp students and when the standard set for them is nothing like what's actually in the folklore, it gives everyone else the short end of the stick :/

I really do hope you can find a properly matching species, though, and can get her worked out 'cause she seems like a pretty cool girl and all. I hope this didn't come off as too harsh and was actually helpful ; n ;;